Relay National Summit

My UW Purple Glove Dance music video (video below) was chosen to be played at the Relay National Summit. Really exciting. They actually asked me about it months ago, but I didn't know that it was for the National Summit, I thought they just wanted the video for archive or something. This is what I get for skimming emails. It even made onto a DVD! We didn't win the competition, actually we lost by like 25,000 views. But the fact that it was chosen from like 200 hundred videos it was a great honor, and most importantly it got watched and its spreading. The point of the video was to spread the word that cancer is there but one doesn't have to face it alone. Winning would have been nice, but wasn't the reason of why I made the video. Thanks to everyone who has watched and helped with the video!



-R

Just A Dream

Just A Dream By Nelly



What do you do when you like, maybe even in love, with somebody but there is nothing you can do about it because its not plausible. Not plausible being that so much has happened between you two that it's too complicated that nothing can ever happen. Just A Dream is a song by Nelly. The beat is amazing, the lyrics really hit home, gave me some chills. I miss him so much, but theres nothing I can do about it. When I hangout with him, I can be myself. He knows enough about me that there is no pressure, I can tell him just about everything. He cares about me just as much as I care about him, but nothing can become of it anymore. Things have grown too complicated. It hurts the both of us to try to move on and we smile and joke around as if nothing is going on between us, but that is what we have to do to mask the pain. We will always be best friends and nothing else.

Lyrics to the song:
I was thinkin about her
thinkin about me
thinkin about us
what we gunna be
open my eyes...
it was only just a dream

so i travel back down that road
wish you come back
no one knows
i realize, it was only just a dream

i was at the top
now its like i'm in the basement
number 1 spot
now shes finding a replacement
i swear now i cant take it
knowing somebodys got my baby

now you wait around, baby i cant think
i should put it down, shoulda got that ring
cuz i can still feel it in the air
see your pretty face
run my fingers through her hair

my love
my life
my shawty
my wife
she left me, i'm tight
cuz i knew that it just aint right

i was thinkin about her
thinkin about me
thinkin about us
where we gunna be
open my eyes...
it was only just a dream

so i travel back down that road
wish you come back
no one knows
i realize, it was only just a dream

and i be ridin
and i swear i see your face and every time
i try to get my usher on but i cant let it burn
and i just hope that she notice she the only one i yearn for
no more sooner will i learn

didn't give her all my love
i guess now i got my payback
now i'm in the club thinking all about my baby
hey
she was so easy to love
but wait, i guess that love wasnt enough
i'm goin through it every time that i'm alone
now i'm wishing she would just pick up the phone
but she made a decision that she wanted to move on
cuz i was wrong

i was thinkin about her
thinkin about me
thinkin about us
where we gunna be
open my eyes...
it was only just a dream

so i travel back down that road
wish you come back
no one knows
i realize, it was only just a dream

if you ever loved somebody put your hands up x2
and now theyre gone and you wish you could give them everything (x2)

i was thinkin about her
thinkin about me
thinkin about us
where we gunna be
open my eyes...
it was only just a dream

so i travel back down that road
wish you come back
no one knows
i realize, it was only just a dream


-R

What it is yo?

Finished the two animations I made for the UW Health Sciences Library.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KX0gbI7K4I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KX0gbI7K4I

For the following weeks and probably months but most likely years I will pause all graphic and video work to clean out my laptop and upload all my videos from years past. If I can find them that is.

-R

I am extremely terri

Type in "i am extremely terri" in google. Yeah. Thank you google for proving that Chinese people are feared by many. When you type that phrase in google, you see that the automatic filter will have 4 choice in which all pretain to "i am extremely terrified Chinese people" why? I'm not quite sure, perhaps it is because we travel in packs. why? perhaps it is because we are secretly self conscious of our height so we travel in numbers. Yes, that has to be it! 


Anyways, I've decided to update this because I feel like I should bless you all with my words but in reality it is because I am bored at work, there is only so much you can YouTube. Today was the dedicated clean up day at work. It is the day where we shut all services down to well clean up the entire library of bum grease and college students lack of washing their hands after using the toilet. Yes, this is true, statistics show that students get sick mainly because of using public computers where people use the keyboards without washing their hands when leaving the bathroom. It is disgusting, sick, yet people do it. This is also the day where we order fancy pizza and clean up our desk space because we are just lazy, fat, and well flat out lazy people during the rest of the year. *ahem* I mean we are just super busy to clean all the time. Today, I drank coffee for the first time and it was good. They provided us with coffee and I drank 3 cups of drip coffee. Man do I miss coffee, oh so much. 


Anyways, new layout this time. Choose this time cause well I liked it. Simple as that. I liked the camera, the laptop, the notepad. Summed up: some of the equipment I work with scattered on a desk. I made a layout page to keep track of my layouts for my old layout check it out. The link is on the top of the page labeled "layouts"


School sucked and I am glad I am officially done with it. 


Working on some animation for the Health Sciences Library, other than that got nothing.


-R

Here Comes Goodbye

This past month, I have been really blessed with amazing friends and family. It never really struck me on how important they are to me till last night. My sister in laws mother flew in from Japan last monday and is flying out today at 9:30 AM. At first it was very awkward because she speaks no English and we speak no Japanese so her daughter had to translate the entire time. She has amazed me a lot. She raised my sister in law all by herself, in Japan she works as a daycare caretaker, who is constantly getting injuries from the little kids and very little pay. She sent her daughter to America for a chance at an education and worked her entire life to provide for her child and she still is. She has no family in Japan except for some brothers and sisters who live a 4 hour bus ride away, so basically she never sees them. Last night we went down to Federal Way and pigged out on an all you can eat Korean BBQ. When we got back to the house we realized that here comes the goodbye. We all sat in the living room, we learned a lot more about her mom. Seeing the mother and daughter having to separate like that was quite depressing. Its ironic the people who doesn't care to be together are together and whereas those that do can't be. I was never a family type person, I grew up like that and is still like that, but after seeing how they are so sad from leaving each other is very touching and makes me reflect on how I should be grateful that I can drive 15 minutes to see G'ma White even though I don't.

I've never truly felt what it means to say goodbye. I've always used the excuses that I don't do goodbyes and I don't do keeping in touch so that I'm able to keep myself at a distance from any sort of emotional connection. But we all have to say our goodbyes at some point in our lives whether its moving to another state or by death, we take it and we move on. And if we are lucky we grow from each goodbye. So instead of avoiding the goodbyes, we should embrace it and use it to grow stronger.

-R

The F.E.A.R. Productions: Sold

I am no longer in charge of The F.E.A.R. Productions. It is officially sold.


-R

Mission UW Purple Glove Dance: Complete

The time has come for me to reveal my masterpiece. I have been working on this since August of 2009. Well brainstorming toke a good 5 months. Made in Sony Vegas, and Adobe After Effects CS4, Photoshop CS4, Illustrator CS4. and Corel Rave. Contest rules is we have to dance with purple gloves on. The one with the most views by July 31st wins the contest and $5000 dollars to their Relay For Life. I'll be representing the University of Washington Division. So please watch the video and spread the news!

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p1wGOtGeL8

Step Back, Relax...

Step Back, Relax...I toke these photos awhile ago, like spring break-so just a few months ago, but I didn't have the time to upload them. I didn't edit these, I thought about it but 1) my photoshop skills is not up to par. 2) to me, I feel like when you edit things it ruins the natural beauty of it. Over Spring Break, I went to Golden Gardens after work to hang out with a couple of my friends. While, I was there, watching the sunset and just relaxing a bit felt so amazing. To just take a step back from everything and absorb the sun rays and breathe in the fresh air. I sat there, looking at the amazing view and was in awe of the beauty of the skies, water and clouds. In our daily lives, we overlook so many things that are happening right before our eyes. As I was sitting there, I saw this little girl (pics 3 and 4) she was trying to skip rocks, and was playing in the sand. Not to sound like a complete creeper. Then her father came beside her and was just making sure she didn't dive into the ocean. She was happy and content, at least she seemed happy and content. That little girl probably wasn't planning what she was going to do tomorrow but instead was thinking how big of a 'plunk' sound can she make with that little rock that fits in the palm of her hands. She was happy to the simplest pleasure in life, something that we all tend to forget because we get so caught up in everything that is going on in our daily lives. However for me, that day, I was happy and content. At least for the few hours I was there for. I soaked in the scenary, toke some photographs, but most importantly I didn't work. I didn't take photos to sell, to photoshop later in the day etc. I didn't think about the problems going on with my family, or aunts and uncles. Didn't think about friendships or regrets. I didn't think about philosophy. I didn't try to justify anything that does happen in the world. I was happy and content. I felt very lucky that I was able to take away a couple hours from my busy schedule to admire the sunset.  When I was taking these the techy mind wanted to go to my car and grab my tripod out and start taking photos, however, after reviewing them on my camera I was happy. If you notice the first couple photos are not perfectly straight. I could have fixed that with a tripod and some editing but I decided not to. This is because I view the world as slanted. This world isn't perfect so neither is the horizon. This slant can symbolize many things depending on the person. For me, this slant shows that nothing in this world is perfect but because it is not perfect is it great. Life isn't what we always want it to be and sometimes are view gets slanted, and bad things do happen in this world. But if we are able to see things from a different perspective and is able to grow stronger and become a better fighter. Its like conditioning, you don't condition in the easiest environment because well then you would have just wasted your time. For the best martial artist is not merely someone that can do a kick perfect but someone who can do a kick in many different angles and views.

 

-R

Filming: Back to Basics

I was very grateful for yesterday. Weather last week said yesterday was going to be sunny, than the weather changed and it was said to be pouring rain with lots of clouds. I woke up and looked outside the window and it was pouring rain, waited at my bus stop went to work still pouring rain, got off work around 12:00 and waited at the bus stop. Not pouring but drizzling. I got to northgate, than after a couple errands went to Kerry Park to film. It did not rain one bit during filming except for the last 5-10 minutes. The clouds did not cover the view whatsoever, instead it gave it an actual dramatic look to the Space Needle, allowng me to maybe put lightning around the space needle. I haven't actually edited the video yet, so I don't know what my animation capabilities at this point is. In addidtion, I was missing 3-4 actors, but we changed the plot a bit and made it work with the people we did have. I was very grateful for the patience of the actors during that whole time, because at that point we were just taking it as it goes.


One of my friends from UW that came with and helped out was amazing. I never realized how nice it is to have someone that knows about filming and editing to be there! She had great advice and filled in as one of the actors, she filmed everything except for the scenes that she was in. If you don't know, I HATE filming, massively hate. I enjoy editing but I do not like filming and avoid it at all costs. It was nice to not have to film for most of it. She was able to understand what I want and what I mean when I was talking about how to film it and the different cuts etc. Its nice to have a team. For a really long time, filming for videos was not fun, but yesterday it was, we had lots of laughs and got some work done. I'm excited about this project, however, we had to use some ghetto of equipment and I really hope that doesn't show up in the video. Well thats it for now.


-R

Sick Production

I am very excited for my newest project: "Purple Glove Dance" Its a contest being held, where 5,000 dollars gets donated to the winner's relay. This will be my very first video contest. We have until July to get the most views. However the project isn't set to finish filming till May 22nd-23rd (the actual relay event). So I really hope that the lack of time on the internet does not super dampen the amount of views we will get. I am already starting this project for 2 reasons:


1) I will be diving into animation that I have never done before
2) I really want to win this for three reasons. One, to show that people I didn't waste their time in this video. Two, to win that $5000 dollars for our relay. Three, to prove to myself i'm not as useless as I think I am


So stay tune!


Oh heres a graphic I did for our club promotion. This was a humongous pain in the butt to make lets just say I'm NOT a fan of the DUB at all cause they are complete douches. Anyways come join us at Club Fusion Ultra Lounge!


-R

New Layout: Let Go...

Ahh...a new layout. Note, that I did not make this template but got it from here. I decided that I needed to revamp this now that I'm taking a break as a professional. In the previous blog I talked about parting with video and graphic work. I lied, well sort of. Video and graphic design is such a big part of my life that I could not imagine parting ways with it permanently or completely. After a few conversations with some friends and thinking about it over night. I've decided to not part ways, however I will be very selective with what I do. I will not be accepting any projects that pays or I say yes because I feel pity for others and lastly I will (hopefully) not say Yes to any project suggested or given-this is going to take lots of practice. Instead I will be accepting or choosing projects that I actually am passionate about.  Saying this means that the following projects will be closed:

Productions (Filming, editing, promoting etc): 

The F.E.A.R. Productions

426 (movie)


Music (beat making, lyrics, etc):
DJ Fear -Anything Involving
Chung Yan-Anything Involving
Palimo-Anything Involving


Miscellaneous:
Anything involving with Crista Ministries (King's Schools, and Nursing Center)

Web Designs (for any sites or anybody I've helped since 2004)

Graphic Designs (for any sites or anybody I've helped since 2004)

Club Heaven

Rave Promotions

Club Trinity

Video Editing tutorials

Animation Tutorials

How To Use Software Tutorials

Confused? Be very confused. I never really talked about a lot of these projects because I thought they were  minor and not really a big deal or I just didn't have the time to. Come on, look at my blog post archive I potentially have like 4 if at that. I try to be universal when it comes to technology, I don't do just video editing and filming and graphics. I helped produced 3 artists and about 25 tracks of music. I use to be a DJ, worked at multiple clubs , a club and rave promoter. I've been doing this line of work since like 2002, yup since Jr. High School.

So you may ask then what the douche are you actually still doing? Well the answer is simple. You will see!

My goal in this is to sort things out that are going on in my personal life. However, I am hoping that I can sort things out with a mesh of technology. That I can use video editing, photography, etc. and hopefully that will help me sort out my life, essentially to let go of my past. Thats right, thats the new title to this blog "let go" There are a lot of things in my past that I've avoided dealing with since I was 5. I have done many things in my life that I regret but haven't really grown from. All throughout my years, I had tried to cover up my street life and much more by being the "prodigy Asian child" Fixing all the problems around me, but because I fixed it I never dealt with it. So now I will be taking a couple steps back to move forward. 

So why new layout? A new beginning documenting hopefully will be a good and new change. I was actually picky about my layout this time. I was going through the templates they had. I was very tempted to choose something very "Jr. High" full of angsty teenagers etc. Or even choosing colors that are incredibly blinding to the eyes like Bright lime green or hot pink. Or even choosing templates where the background image is so strong that one can barely even read the text causing one to squint at the computer screen. I'm not going to lie, I'm still adapting to the whole thing of being 20. I was very tempted in choosing a template like these: 

DJ

City Lights

Now, how many of you have chosen templates like these, I'm not going to judge cause I was once and perhaps is still am one of those teenagers. What can I say? I'm a sucker for city lights. Now why did I choose the one I have now? I personally wanted to stay away from an all black background and go with something lighter or perhaps even white, however I saw this one and thought it was just perfect. It had my favorite colors (back to the whole Jr. high thing XD). I really liked the boldness and how the title and subtitle stuck out at the top. The rainbow colors, showing versatility. Overall, I felt it gave that professional vibe with a mesh of Jr. High colors. I feel like this template will show the transition I'm going through in sorting out my past and present. Note, there are still a couple of html and css things I need to work on for this template.

Now, that this post is coming to an end, if you actually read all of this. Why this post? To inform all of you that have been emailing me for tutorials and questions for anything related to technology. I might respond if the questions are short and easy but don't expect a reply from me. Sorry. I wish you all the greatest luck.

-R

Valentines and Crista Randomness

Forewarning: this is going to be a long post...

As some of you may know I will be taking a break from video/graphic work. I realized that there are some things I really need to sort out in my personal life and I really was not working on that because I used video/graphic design to avoid it. I may be back or I may not. However, I will be doing graphic designs/videos for Relay for Life UW because I had prior commitments and this Crista Auction Video that I had already committed to. As a result the movies I had lined up to film and produce and anything involving the F.E.A.R. Productions are being on hold. Now that all of this is said lets continue on with the important stuff: graphics and video. Enjoy!

Note: Click on image to enlarge.

Graphics:

Relay for life has asked me to make a few posters/fliers for our Valentines day sale, t-shirt sales and overhead design for the Team Captains meeting. The Valentines Day sale was quite hard because if you know me, you will know I am basically the "Anti"-Romantic. For this design they had asked me to make a poster/flier that goes along the theme of "Kisses for a Cure" I basically find some pics on sxc.hu and made them transparent adding some text to it. I was super proud of myself when I added the pink ribbons and the text onto the red valentines day gift =D So here it is:

This was perhaps the easiest flier I've ever made. Just toke the .jpeg of the shirts and added some text to it:

This was pretty easy as well. I designed the paw print in Photoshop and then exported it to illustrator and added text to it:

Alright well I guess this is it for this post!

OKAY

Couple of business stuff to take care of. Firstly, "The High Five Movie" have been put on hold due to scheduling conflicts. However, a couple of friends and I are making another movie called 426. This will be my very first movie. Plot to be announced later. Secondly, I have been promoting UW Relay in the past like 5 posts. The Hoody Sweatshirt Designs and T-Shirt Desgins have been finally finalized. The Hoody's will be in Navy Blue for $25, and the T-Shirts Dark Gray for $10. The Hoody Sweatshirt is designed so that you can write whatever you want with a permanent or a washable marker that way its personal and unique for each person. Email if you want to buy one or some:

Note: Click on the image to enlarge.

Front Of Hoody Sweatshirt:

Back Of Hoody Sweatshirt:

Front of T-Shirt

Back of T-Shirt:

UW Relay Buttons

UW Relay Buttons. I got sent an email and they gave me some descriptions of what they wanted so here it is. Below is the jpeg and the description of what they wanted.

Their Email: "Hi, Rebecca!

I am working in the Mission Delivery and Advocacy group for Relay for Life and have a quick favor to ask you. I have the task of making buttons for kick off and need some major help.

I have no idea how to make a template for the buttons but we need a very simple design that says "1 in 3" in white letters on a purple background and then maybe "UW Relay for Life" along the bottom in smaller font. We are using the smallest buttons that the Resource Center offers but I don't have the right programs to actually design the templates. "
They asked for a simple design so here it is:

In addition, I've made an intro to the Health Sciences Library but I can't seem to post videos onto here anymore like I did before?!?!?!

-R